[IsoldesKnight]

Invites weren't what got me hyped about Gmail. My Yahoo and Hotmail accounts had 2-5 MB storage limits at the time. Gmail offered a 1 GB storage limit. The idea that I'd never have to delete an email again is what had me hitting up old friends on AIM for an invite.

[iqkznnft]

Ironically, now that they've locked everyone in, they're demanding that you pay or delete emails. Scumbags.

[pembrook]

Is it scumbag of them, or are we the scumbags for refusing to adopt any software unless it’s free?

Would you rather they parse all your private communications for advertising profile purposes and keep it free-as-in-Facebook?

It was basically a decade-plus free trial. I can’t see how that was a bad deal.

I pay for email(Fastmail) because I want to support the team working on keeping my main communication channel working smoothly, and would rather not have my emails parsed by the advertising surveillance state.

[iqkznnft]

> Would you rather they parse all your private communications for advertising profile purposes and keep it free-as-in-Facebook?

Is this sarcasm? You know they literally do this, right?

And even if they didn't, not doing it doesn't give them a pass to promise people something and then take it back.

[aaaaaaaaata]

> Would you rather they parse all your private communications for advertising profile purposes

At minimum, they do this for internal use.

[alanbernstein]

My inbox is almost full, so they're hassling me about this. I did some investigation and found that over 1GB of the data in my inbox is email history quotes from a long-running email chain. Of course it's impossible to delete those without deleting each email they belong to.

Conspiracy theory: Google refused to implement an option to disable inserting email quotes in responses, knowing that such an option would make more efficient use of storage space.

[lupire]

Text content of email is 0.

Quota is used by attachments, which Google refuses to let you delete, because they want you tomoay for storage.

[wumpus]

Those email chains compress really well.

[Out_of_Characte]

Yes but how is their size counted?

[Semaphor]

After using GMail since they were invite only, I switched to fastmail 5 years ago:

Storage is 18% full - Using 5.3 GB of 30 GB

I think I have some time until I need to delete or pay.

[zamadatix]

They stopped giving the GB of free storage?

[dragonwriter]

> They stopped giving the GB of free storage?

It's now 15GB, but if you use Drive or Photos it uses the same quota pool.

[antisthenes]

4-5GB in 2008 is not the same as 15GB (That's their free tier, I think) in 2022.

Hard drives have grown in capacity far beyond 3x in the same time period. Even more so if you consider the $/GB value rather than just max capacity.

[dexterdog]

No, a GB is no longer that much, esp if you been with them since launch.

[lupire]

What are you talking about?